364 '` The sublapfarians a°sc7rine taketh might by thefight offro manygoodly forts of creatures andthe tag offo many bleffings be drawn to the love andferviceof hi and their Maker. And a little after he faith, in the fame q rhid. '!od chapter, q Look ofwhat ufe the LawandProphets were to the el'er conga Ifraelites, ofthefame ufe were the gifts ofCreation e9 rrovi- fti pe dente to the Gentiles. Godnever intended to deal with the legis & aro- Gentiles as the foul-mouthed Manichees Paid he dealt with phetica eta- the Jews, to feed and fat them up with outward and more (pia gereba- commonblefhngs as fo many hogs andCaving wìthhusk and tor, hoc in r, univerfis na- akorns, but to draw them up by thofe to an expe ationof tionibus to- better things and acarefull endeavour to pleale God , that fo tius cream- they might obtein them. Theend ofall creaturesand of all & tbon created gifts beftovved upon man is fu+ordinate to the end of tin Dei mira- man. Mans end is to glorifie God uponearth, and enjoy per_ cula femper petuall focietywith him in heaven; and the end of thofe gifts egerwit. is to dire&and encourageman to atchieve that high and ex- celleaatend ro which his Creatour hadappointed him. Now for rye gifts of grace, they likewife are given to all them that enjoy them for the fame ufe and end toe. For J. Eft, Chrifl carne into the world, not that he might be a rockof offenfe at which the greater part of men fhoüid Rumble and fall, but to fliedhis bloud, and by that bloud to purchafe falvation for all mankind, not onely for thole who are laved, but for thofe alfowho through their wilfull unbe- liefand impenitencie are not faved;as we may fee John 3.17. Godfeat his Sonne (faith the Sonne ) into the world , not to condemns the world,but that the world through him might be Paved. In which words the end of his coming is let down i. Negatively, not to condemne the world; 2. Affirmatively, but that the world through himmight be fved : and there- foreveryfully. The like frechwe haveJohn i z. 47. 1 came not to judge the world, but to fave it. Thefe negations joyned with affirmations thew that the falvationof all men was the onely end of Chrifts coming, the end exclufively : no other end was properly intended by it but this. The Sonne of man came to feel¿ and to fave what was loft, Luke 79 Io. Therefore he came to fave every man; for (very man was loft. And Ads 3. z6. Toyou (faith S. Peter) hatl) God feat his SonneJefus; to bleffe you, in turning every one ofyoufrom your iaiquitie; everyone ofyou, you that reje& him as well as you that receive him. The end then of Chrifls coming into the world was the S.rlvationofall and every man tilt' rein. Ii. The m niitery of the Word and Sacraments is given alfa
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